Reddit bans pic site
By Ria Sharma

US-based Reddit.com, like Digg, is a site where anyone on the internet can provide content.  And the Reddit community votes to decide what is good and what is garbage.  The more votes a submitted article / link gets, the more chances it will make its way to the front page and consequently international exposure and attention. Reddit is hugely popular in India and Pakistan.  In April, 2011, I had done an article on how Reddit had hit a record billion page views a month

Reddit is part of the powerful Conde Nast publishing group which owns highly regarded technology and business sites like Wired and Ars Technica. 

According to Alexa figures for Aug, 2011, Reddit gets most of its traffic from USA (46 percent) followed by India (10.5 percent).

Website Dailydot has a detailed report on how Reddit has been forced into banning one of its own sites ‘Jailbait’ which has sexualized pictures of teen girls.  More than 21000 Reddit users were members of Jailbait.

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Reddit admins banned a controversial but legal teen picture section yesterday, spawning intense debate and causing some to accuse the social news site of censorship.

The problems began after internal power struggles led to the ouster of a number of moderators at the subreddit,  /r/jailbait. Their replacements attracted the attention of Reddit admins.

According to Reddit’s general manager, Erik Martin, these new moderators “had been repeatedly banned from reddit for various reasons” and the situation in the subreddit “was out of control.”

Essentially, trouble-making users had taken control of a subreddit that features legal but sexualized images of teenagers that border on child pornography.
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The article also details how Reddit has forums where men put news, images and their views on women being beaten up.

Wonder how much of the traffic for these sub sites comes from India!